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The extended LBA partition is an extension of the old MS-DOS partition table allowing for multiple partitions on a disk. The original MBR scheme just contained one partition table with four entries. One of the four entries was marked "active" and was the only visible one. The extended (LBA ...

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Thanks for you input recuperation. Here's the log. I've edited my original post and inserted all images with ones uploaded to the forum

Hi,

I'm not all that tech savvy when it comes to this end of things and am hoping someone might be able to help me decide which option to choose to repair an NTFS filesystem.

On a Windows 7 PC I was manually backing up files to an external 2 GB USB drive formatted NTFS that should have had 1 ...

I have an NTFS formatted 500GB hard drive where its entire single partition was accidentally deleted, and a new partition was created, and then a quickly formatted NTFS file system created. The drive was the primary drive for the system with Windows 7 installed to boot the system.

Testdisk found ...

It would have been nice to figure out how to fix the partition problem on this drive. But since I got no further feedback on the issue, I opted just to reformat it. Windows started the process, but failed. Linux had no problem reformatting it FAT32. So it's in business again.

For each partition, use 'p' to list the files. This way you will known if the partition is valid or not.
Thanks for addressing this Christophe.

A 'deeper search' on that Windows version 7 of Testdisk found 1 Linux partition, 6 Linux Swap partitions, and 1 FAT32 LBA partition on the USB flash ...

Hi folks... A few years back I managed to restore an entire disk with Testdisk I had accidentally lost executing the wrong DISKPART command. So after stumbling through a few approaches for correcting this current problem, I remembered to go back to Testdisk.

My problem started when I wrote an ISO ...